Betrayal and Revenge in the plays "Medea" and "The Libation Bearers" In 458 B.C. ... The other play I will be looking at is "Medea". ... The next play I will deal with is Medea. ... This is when Medea wants to take revenge. ... Now an old friend of Medea enters the play, which is Aigeus, king of Athens. ...
God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to people's houses," says the nurse in the beginning of Euripides's play Medea (119-130). ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... Even now I know that I am making a mistake," he says (Euripides, The Medea, 332-330). ... He lies and says that he is remarrying for the good of Medea and the children, so that they too may be royalty. ... Medea in her anger kills Creon and his daughter, and then kills her own children, only to cause Jason more pain. ...
Earth- The first being in the universe. Gives birth to Heaven. Heaven- Made from and married to Earth. Creates the titans and other first creatures of the world. Titans- Children of Heaven and Earth. These were the first gods who gave birth to the olympians that overthrew them. Cronus- ...
Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, depicts the culture of ancient Greece. It describes the Greece's way of life from politics to art. I intend to prove that Greek works, both written and non-written, can inspire people to think differently and the total effects these works had as a whole in ...
